California recently launched a “snitch line” webpage to provide a way for California residents to anonymously report companies that produce Expanded Polystyrene foodware products, also known as styrofoam products. The new website comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signed a law that officially banned the production and distribution of styrofoam foodware products earlier this year.
According to a statement on the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery’s website, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which was outlined in Senate Bill 54, “imposes minimum content requirements for single-use packaging and plastic food service ware, to be achieved through an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program.”
According to The Post Millennial, while the ban on the production and distribution of styrofoam foodware products was implemented in January, producers have been allowed to continue selling styrofoam products if they achieved a 25% recycling target rate. However, according to the Surfrider Foundation, producers did not achieve the recycling rate by January.
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The new “snitch line” webpage launched by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery explains that the webpage is intended to “hold producers responsible if they sell EPS plastic foam food ware in California until they meet a 25% recycling rate.”
The webpage adds, “Producers of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) food service ware are currently restricted from selling or distributing EPS food service ware, like single-use takeout containers and cups, in or into California. Sellers of EPS food service ware who are NOT producers are not subject to this prohibition.”
The new webpage also includes a confidentiality warning that informs users that reporting companies that produce and sell styrofoam foodware products will “create a public record that is subject to California’s Public Records Act.” The webpage allows users to choose whether they wish to “remain anonymous” while reporting companies that violate California’s styrofoam ban.
A picture of California’s new “snitch line” website was shared Tuesday by Libs of TikTok on X, formerly Twitter.
“California now has a snitch line where residents can tell on fellow Californians for eating out of the wrong food containers after Newsom signed a law banning styrofoam containers,” Libs of TikTok tweeted. “This is the same guy who called Trump a dictator.”
